What Does Rachel Mean in the Bible Read through 3 lenses

When a mind that has traveled far in fear meets the one it has longed for, the tears are recognition, not sorrow. Something in it knows this face, and the weeping is what happens when the guard of the ego drops and love is allowed through without defense.

The part of the mind that has learned to withhold finally stops withholding, and in that unguarded meeting it remembers that joining was always the thing it wanted. The tears are relief that the long separation was never as real as it felt.

• Rachel: the beloved thought the mind has journeyed toward, the recognition of one's own that dissolves the sense of being alone

The opening of the closed womb is the higher intelligence within quickening a barren faculty of the soul into fruitfulness, the long-unproductive inner ground at last made able to bring forth. Rachel is the beloved inner feeling nature that has yearned without yield, and her womb opened is the center of a person finally receiving the seed of higher life and beginning to conceive.

To be remembered and heard is the deep self turning toward what has waited within, the answering of a longing carried long in silence. What was fruitless in the inner life becomes fruitful when the higher power moves upon it, and the sterile place brings forth the new.

• Rachel: the beloved inner feeling nature, the longed-for faculty of the soul that has waited without yield
• Womb: the receptive inner ground of a person where higher life is conceived and brought forth

Jacob "heel-catcher". The striver, the part of you that arrives in new country still carrying the habit of grasping.

• **Rachel** "ewe". A young female sheep: the gentle following nature, the soul that attaches and goes where it is led. A shepherd valued the ewe for what came out of her, not for anything she did.

Rebekah "a tie". The traditional lists take the name from a root for a cord or a noose: the binding kind of love that fastens one person to another and will not slacken.

• Teaching: the grasping part of you introduces itself to the gentle following part by naming what produced it, and what produced it was the tie. When the grabber in you can say where it came from, the soft nature does not argue; it runs and tells the household, and the door opens on that alone. Naming your origin is what gets you taken in.